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W. L. BGRY. AUTDGRAPHIG REGISTER.

No. 563,849. Patented July 14, 1896.

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AUTOGRAPHIG REGISTER. No. 563,849. Patented July 14, 1896.

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lVlLlilAlll L. EGRY, Ol"1 DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE E lRY AUTO-GRAPl-UO REGISTER CO'IPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,849, dated July 14,1896.

Application filed April 27, 1894. Serial No. 509,232. (No model To all'wh/012?, t may concern/.-

Be it known that I, VILLIAM L. EGRY, of Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AutographicRegisters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to improvements in devices for the storing ofwritten records, such devices being generally known as autographicregisters.

My improvements will be readily understood from the followingdescription, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, inwhichw Figure l is a vertical longitudinal section of an a-utographicregister exemplifying my invention; Fig. 2, a sectional plan thereof;Fig. 3, a plan of the register; Fig. 4f, a face View of the rammer; Fig.5, a side elevation of the remmer and its actuating mechanism; Fig. (i,a side elevation of the gripper and its actuating mechanism; Fig. 7, aplan of one of the darts on which the paper is stabbed, and Fig. S avertical longitudinal section of one of the spindles for the roll ofpaper.

A In the drawings, referring in most instances to Fig. 1, 1 indicatesthe usual inclosing casing of an autographic register; 2, the tablet atthe top thereof, over which the paper passes to be written upon; 3, thewicket in the top of the casing to expose the paper upon the tablet; i,the feed-rolls for carrying the paper forward; 5, the crank foroperating the feed-rolls; (i, a roll of paper on a spindle within theeasing, this paper being hereinafter spoken of as the bill-paper todistinguish it from a second paper which contains.

\ the record-paper on its way from its roll, over the tablet and throughthe feed-rolls,and then to a storage-compartment beyond the feedrolls,this record-paper being somewhat wider than the bill-paper, the twopapers therefore lying together upon the tablet, it being understoodthat the usual carbon or transferpaper will be interposed between them;10, folds of the record-paper in the storage-compartm ent stabbed upondarts; 1l, darts removably secured in the end door of the apparatus toreceive the folds of record-paper, these darts bein g removably insertedin sockets in the end door, so that a pile of the folds of paper may beremoved, the darts coming along with the pile; 12, the end door of theapparatus, supporting the darts inclosing the storage-compartment, andcapable of being turned down so that the pile of record-paper can begotten at; 13, Fig. S, one of the spindles employed for the paper-rolls,the same being adapted to enter the axial hole in the roll of paper orthe bore in the spool in case the roll is upon the spool or reel; 14,end journals, capable of endwise movement in sockets in the ends of thespindle; 15, springs in the journal-sockets, urging these end journalsoutwardly, the journals having stop-pins to limit their outuf'ardmovement, these stop-pins working in slots in the spindles; 1G, a flangemounted near one end of the spindle and capable of endwise motionthereon; 17, a sprin g urging the flange inwardly, this spring abuttingagainst the fixed flange on the end of the spindle; 18, Fig. 2,vertically-open bea-rings in one of the side walls of the casing, one ofthe journals 14 of the spindle resting in the appropriate one of thesebearings, the end of the roll of paper coming against the face of thebearing, while the other end journal of the spindle rests in a similarbearing upon the opposite wall of the casing, the spring 17 at that endof the spindle urging the iiange 16 against the end of the roll ofpaper, the arrangement being obviously such that the roll of paper isclamped with some force between the iiange 1G and the bearing 1S,whereby tensional resistance is maintained upon the roll as the paper isdrawn from it, the end journals of the spindle being urged outwardlyagainst the side walls of the casing by the spring 15, whereby thespindle is elastically held in its bearings; 19, a shaft journaled inthe casing; 20, afolding-rod disposed across over the record-paperbetween the feed -rolls and the darts on which the paper is to bestabbed; 21, a pivoted arm carrying this folding-rod and serving tocarry the rod up and down in producing the folds; 22, a pivoted leverhaving a pin in its long arm engaging under the arm 21 and having a pinin its short arm to be engaged by a cam on shaft 19'; 23, a fixedsupport for the pivot of lever 22; 24, a volute cam on shaft 19, thiscam engaging the pin in the short arm of lever 22, the arrangement beingobviously such that as the cam 24 rotates in the direction of the arrowit will lift lever 22, and consequently lift arm 21 and elevate thefolding-` rod 20, and that when the offset in the cam reaches the pin inlever 22 the previouslyelevated parts will be at liberty to fall bytheir own gravity, thus allowing folding-rod 2O to descend and carrydown a fold of the record-paper in front of the darts in position to bestabbed upon the darts, the folding-rod rising again to upper positionbefore the stabbing takes place; 25, a pair of spring gripperfingersnear one wall of the casing in position to grip the lower end of thefold of paper which has been carried down by the foldingrod 20, one ofthese fingers being stationary and the other being movable, so that t-hegripper may open and close; 2G, Fig. 6, a lever having one end inengagement with the movable gripper-finger and having the other endprovided with a pin to be engaged by a cam on the shaft 19; 27, a fixedsupport for the pivot of this lever; 28, a cam on shaft 19, engagin-gthe pin in lever 26, this cam being partly volute and partly concentric;29, a spring tending to close the gripper 25, the general gripperarrangement being obviously such that the cam 28 will force the gripperopen and hold it open until the offset in the cam reaches the pin whichit engages, whereupon the gripper will spring shut and clamp upon the-fold of paper which has been carried down by folding-rod 20, cams 24and 28 being so timed that the gripper will be held open a proper timeto receive the fold of the paper as the folding-rod 2O brings the folddown, and close upon the fold when the folding-rod rises; 30, arammer-plate disposed in front of the darts and far enough from them topermit the folding-rod to carry the fold of paper `downbetween therammer-plate and the ends of the darts, this rammer-plate being piercedfor the darts, as seen in Fig. 4 3l, a guide to support the rammer-plateand permit it t0 reciprocate to and from the paper stabbed upon thedarts; 32, (see Fig. 5,) a lever having one arm linked to therammerplate, this lever being pivoted upon a fixed support; 33, a springtending to rock the lever 32 and urge the rammer-plate toward and uponthe darts; 34, a cam fast upon the shaft 19 and having a peripheral siderim, this cam having a concentric portion and an extensionel-bow and anabrupt offset or jumping-off place leading from the concentric portionto the extension; 35, a pin in the guide-stud of the rammer, this pinengaging within the rim of cam 34, the general rammel' engagement beingobviously such that as cam 34 turns it will hold the rammer-plate backand then suddenly release it and allow spring 33 to force therammer-plate forward toward and upon the darts, the cams being so timedwith reference to each other that the fold of paper will be carried downby the folding-rod and the fold then grasped by the gripper, and thefolding-rod will then rise and the rammerplate then move forward andstab the fold of paper upon the darts, the gripper at the same timereleasing the paper, the rammer-plate then retreating and the gripperopening ready for the folding-rod to carry down a new fold: 36, gearingconnecting the feed-rolls with shaft 19, so that each folding andstabbing operation will correspond with such degree of turning of thefeed-rolls as is appropriate for the amount of record-paper required toform a fold; 37 a stop-pawlto prevent retrograde motion of themechanism; 38, Fig. 3, a line printed across the upper or bill paper atthe end of each bill, the distance between these lines upon the papertherefore representing the length of the bill, a similar line beingprinted upon the record-paper in case the record-paper contains printedforms instead of being blank; 39, side extensions in the margins of thewicket over the tabletin the position line 38 occupies when the bill isin position to be written upon, this arrangement permitting a view ofline 3S upon the wider under paper, thus rendering it possible to judgeas to whether or not the two running papers are maintainingtheirregistry; 40, Fig. 2, the bearings for the end journals of thespindles of the papier-rolls at the ends opposite the bearings 18; 41,Fig. 5, the offset in the cam which operates the rammer-plate; 42, Fig.6, the offset in the cam which operates the gripper, and 43, Fig.. 7 arecess in the lower one of the darts adapted to receive an ordinaryMcGill paper-fastener in such position that the folds of pap er asstabbed upon the darts will also be received upon this paper-fastener.

In Fig. 3 the end door 12 is shown in dotted line as open, showing thethree darts, two for the top of the folds of paper and one for thebottom, the bottom one being the one to receive the paper-fastener. Thelength of a bill is to correspond with the vertical length of the folds.By opening the end door 12 and tearing off the unfolded record-paper theentire pile of folded papers may be removed, the darts coming with thepile. The paper-fas tener m ay then be clenched and the darts withdrawnfrom the pile of paper, leaving the complete record somewhat in the formof a bound book whose leaves may be turned to expose all of the records,the back of the record-paper being the part which cannot be opened forinspection.

Vere the darts not removable it would be necessary for an inspection ofthe leaves to take vaway the partition in which the darts are secured,thereby totally crippling the use IOC IIO

of the machine, because the machine could not be used until the door wasreturned, and the machine would be inoperative were the darts notremovable during the examination and consultation of the pile of leaves.The pile of leaves properly bound by the darts can be removed from themachine in bound form, and new darts put into the machine at once foruse. In my Patent No. 518,230 it would require to put the machine incondition for use, not the insertion of new darts, but that substitutefasteners be put into the pile of papers, a very much more troublesomeprocess.

ln my present machine a pile can be removed with its darts withoutremoving the door, so that the use of the machine can be continued withother darts, while later the pile can be restored with its originaldarts and the record continued where it was interrupted. Such use can bemade of the machine where it is appropriated to a certain salesman in astore. lVhen that salesman lays ed for a day, his record is removed onits darts and a new record started for the substitute salesman, the oldrecord being returned and continued the next day. Another point is foundin the character of the darts permissible by the present arrangement. Inmy Patent No. 513,230 the pile is required to be pulled from the frontof the stop-wires, thus preventing the use of bold retainingbarbs uponthe darts. In the new ease the darts can have bold barbs and theremovability of the darts permit-s the paper to be stripped from theirrear ends, or, otherwise expressed, permits of their being pulled outforwardly.

If the paper-fasteners be not used, still the pile of paper is removablefrom the appara-- tus in convenient form for inspection, being bound,book-like, by the darts, and the pile may be easily replaced by simplyreinsertin g the darts in the door.

It is to be understood that the spindle 13 has an endwise-slidingspring-pressed journal la in each of its ends, thus permittingtheinsertion of the spindle int-o its bearings in the easing by a square ornon-tilted presentation, a matter of importance in dealing with largebut short rolls of paper.

I claim as my inventionl. In an autographie register, the combination,substantially as set forth, of feed mechanism to advance a strip ofpaper, darts beyond the feed mechanism on which the paper is to bcstabbed in folds, a rammer-plate mounted for reciprocation to and fromthe darts, a folding-rod and operating 1n echanism arranged to lay thepaper in folds between said rammer-plate and darts,` a cam holding therannner-plate away from the darts and having a releasing point or lobe,and a spring arranged to, urge the rammer-plate to the darts.

2. In an autographieregister, the combination, substantially as setforth, with feed-,

rolls, stabbing-darts, a rammer-plate, and a folding-rod arranged to laypaper in folds between the darts and rammelt-plate, of a gripper at theend of the path of the folding-rod, and mechanism for opening andclosing the gripper to receive and grip and release the fold ofpapercarried down by the folding-rod.

3. ln an autographic register, the combination, substantially as setforth, with feedrolls, stabbing-darts, a rammer-plate, and a folding-rodarranged to carry a fold of paper between the darts and rammer-plate, ofa pair of gripping-fingers at the end of the stroke of the folding-rod,a spring tending to close said gripping-fingers, and a cam connectedwith one of said gripping-iingers and adapted to open and hold open thegrippingiingers and permit them in proper time to close by the aotion ofsaid spring.

4. In an autographic register, the combination, substantially as setforth, of a casing, paper-feeding mechanism, a rammer-plate, afolding-rod to lay the paper in folds in front of the rammer-plate, apair of stabbing-darts supported near one end of the path of saidfolding-rod in position to engage near the edges of the paper beingdealt with, and a third stabbing-dart supported near the other end ofthe path of said folding-rod in position to engage at the center ofWidth of the paper being dealt with.

5. In an autographic register, the combination, substantially as setforth, of a casing, a pair of feed-rolls arranged to feed forward astrip of paper with itsface uppermost, a rammer-plate, a folding-rodengaging over said paper in front of said rammer-plate and arranged tocarry a fold of paper down in front of said rammer-plate, a pair ofstabhing-darts supported in front of and near the top of therammer-plate, and a third stabbing-dart supported in front of and nearthe bottom of said rammer-platein position to engage the center of Widthof the paper being dealt with.

6. In an autographic register, the combination, substantially as setforth, of a casing, paper-feeding rolls, darts on which the paper is tostab in folds, a rammer-platc reciprocating to and from the darts, afolding-rod adapted to rise and fall between the rammerplate and darts,a gripper to engage the base of the fold of paper, a shaft turning withthe paper-feeding rolls,-and three independent cams upon said shaft onefor operating said folding-rod and one for opere ting said rammer-plateand one for operating said gripper.

7. In an autographic register, the combination substantially as setfort-h, of a casing, a door thereto, vstabbing barbed darts temporarilysupported in said easing, paperfeeding mechanism to advance a web ofpaper into said easing toward said stabbingdart-s, paper-foldingmechanism to lay said paper into reverse folds in front of saidstabhing-darts, and a rammer to force the :folds of paper upon thestabbing-darts, whereby IOO IIO

is produeod a; bound book of reverseliy-"foldod ft'omi Substantiallyasset forth,Y with Y papel*- rleavos Supported with said casing :md colpa-4 feeding mld paperfold11g mechanism and a Vbl'e'of boing 'detached inbound om'therorammel' to force theV folds of pnpor upon from.L Y Adarts, of L dart supported in position to have 15 'A VS; inmautographerogser, the Combina-f the fods oi" papel foroed'upon itand'pvo-V o tion, Substantalyas set forh, with a Casing vided with a.bolder fo n cenohng poper- Y' paper feeding ,and folding mechanism, andn fastonor; Y Y

rammel' flo force tho .fods of paper upon` dafts, of` oaxcbodV dartshavngshanks Tomovo Vtnesses: Y

[o ably supported in sockets 'in the casing; JOSEPH A. VORTMAN:

9.- In m1 autograph@ register, the combina- LAURA A.- XVRIGHT.

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